Re: Unified power management userspace policy

2001-01-09 Thread Andrew Morton
John Fremlin wrote: > > Hi! > > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Could you please use call_usermodehelper() in this patch > > rather than exec_usermodehelper()? I want to kill > > exec_usermodehelper() sometime. > > The reason I used exec_usermodehelper is that I wanted to wai

Re: Unified power management userspace policy

2001-01-09 Thread John Fremlin
Hi! Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could you please use call_usermodehelper() in this patch > rather than exec_usermodehelper()? I want to kill > exec_usermodehelper() sometime. The reason I used exec_usermodehelper is that I wanted to waitpid on the process to see how it exited

Re: Unified power management userspace policy

2001-01-09 Thread Andrew Morton
John Fremlin wrote: > > Hi all! > > At the moment there are two power management drivers in the linux > kernel (AFAIK). They each have different userspace interfaces -- > /proc/apm and /dev/apmctl and /proc/sys/acpi/events or something. This > is not altogether bad, but as they do the same thing